Clean Energy transition Advances

Coral bleaching...Great Barrier

Covid update

U.S. Pollution levels down

Environmental Rules Suspended

McDonalds dumps plastic Happy Meals

U. of California dumps fossil feul investments

My next guest on DITD is Ben Falk he is a permaculturalist, landscape architetect and site planner. He is the founder of Whole system design in Vermont... a modern day Homestead planning company and the author of the book The Resilient farm and homestead. Ben advises land owners on how to be Sustainable, ecologically friendly and meet most of your food, medicine and energy needs by living in a more resilient manner. He was one of the featured permaculturalist in one of the featured films in our environmental film series called. A film called "Inhabit". His process and results are scalable from residential properties to neighborhoods, to regions. The goal is to be able to better deal with future change brought on by the climate crisis and other unforeseen disasters.

Ahmad Abojaradeh (Waterbury / CT Mutual Aid), Allison Waggener (Bridgeport Mutual Aid), and Constanza Segovia (Hartford Mutual Aid) speak about some of the mutual aid work happening here in Connecticut amidst this current crisis.

If you live anywhere in Connecticut and are in need of help right now, or looking for ways to help others in your community, or both, please visit www.ctmutualaid.com to plug in to what's happening in your area.

If you're in Norwalk, you can connect directly at:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/norwalkmutualaid

If you're in Stratford, you can connect directly at:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/StratfordMutualAid

If you're in Manchester, South Windsor, East Hartford, or Vernon, you can connect directly at:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/521885385421376/

If you're in Waterbury, you can connect directly at:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/waterburymutualaid/

If you're in Bridgeport, you can connect directly at:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/151365126136697/

If you're in New Haven, you can connect directly at:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/639466263512268/

You can connect directly to the Autoimmune-Compromised and Disabled Rural Queer Mutual Aid group through the form at:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf9Z6MztLLyECuF7q-VnAgmqYCnBqwO9rkXXXxhH0N9IWh5Aw/viewform

If you're able to donate to support the work Mutual Aid Hartford is doing, they are accepting donations on Venmo at mutualaidhartford.

You can also learn more about the mutual aid work CTCore-Organize Now is doing statewide at: http://www.ctcore-organizenow.org/

On this month’s show, Dr. J discusses the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic. It is unlike any other public health crisis any of us have seen in our lifetime - forcing us to sit still and make sense of the new “normal”. Discussion includes the trajectory of the virus from 2019 including its pathogenesis, epidemiology, and current testing limitations. Dr. J explores important considerations for populations at risk, prevention strategies, potential treatments and helpful resources.

Alberto Faya, founder of the renowned Nueva Trova group, Grupo Moncada, discusses the intersection of culture and politics in Cuba and reflects on the evolution of Cuban socialism in the face of 60 years of the US embargo.

Interview by Richard Hill, Havana, Cuba, Feb. 22, 2020.

Special thanks to Merri Ansara for help with interview arrangements.

Intro/outro music: Vamos a Ver by Julito Padron and the Cuban All Stars.

I share innovative ways to maintain healthy relationships, to feel safe and connected, during these challenging times.

*Amid COVID-19 Pandemic U.S. Economic Sanctions on Iran, Venezuela a “Crime Against Humanity” Alfred de Zayas, Prof of law at the Geneva School of Diplomacy, Former first UN independent expert for the Promotion of a Democratic and Equitable International Order Producer: Melinda Tuhus

*Trump's Immoral Response to Coronavirus Crisis is Costing Americans' Lives Richard Eskow, Senior Advisor for Health & Economic Justice with the group Social Security Works, TV Host Producer: Scott Harris

*COVID-19 Pandemic Burden Falls Disproportionately on America's Working Poor Jim Wallis, rev, a writer, teacher, preacher, justice advocate, and founder Sojourners magazine Producer: Scott Harris

Thabisa Rich is a singer/songwriter based in New Haven, Connecticut, and born and raised in South Africa.

On this episode of Mic Check, she opens up about growing up in South Africa, and music's impact on her life.

The song she performs at the end of the program is her song, "Eyodidi."

More information on Thabisa and her music is available at www.thabisamusic.com.

Thursday, March 26, 2020, 12 noon WPKN 89.5 FM www.wpkn.org

Host: Duo Dickinson

The world is either sick or in terror of being sick: and everyone lives somewhere. We all have heard of “Sick House Syndrome” where poor ventilation allowed for mold and carbon monoxide and Radon to threaten us in what should be our safest place: our home. But now the world is our “Sick House.”

Where are we? Is “Sick” only a physical danger, or can a healthy be home more than protection from Covid19? Two architects join HOME PAGE who have spent lifetimes examining what is “sick” and what is “healthy” in the place that should be our place of greatest safety – where we live.

Whether it is in our homes or on our streets, humans experience what we make. Today we are all compelled to listen to our health in a time of threatened well-being – but what impacts us every day, impacting how we feel in the world we make for ourselves? Please join us at HOME PAGE to think beyond this time of sequester and social isolation.

Ann Sussman, registered architect, writes and teaches about health in architecture, including her book, with Justin Hollander, “Cognitive Architecture” and has lectured all over the world on how architecture impacts human perception, and how human perception impacts health, Ann teaches at the Boston Architecture Center, and frequently contributes to the Common Edge Collaborative.

Steve Mouzon opened his own architecture firm in 1991 and produces a number of town-building tools and services. Mouzon Design’s Premium Tools Collection is a subscription service to robust new place-making tools that heretofore were unaffordable when commissioned by a single development. A Living Tradition is a framework for a new type of pattern book that is principle-based instead of taste-based and therefore contributes to the creation of new living traditions.

Michael Mehaffy is an author, educator, researcher, designer, and consultant with an international practice. He is currently Senior Researcher with the Axson Johnson Foundation and the Centre for the Future of Places at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm and Executive Director of the Sustasis Foundation and Sustasis Press. He has helped create urban communities that manifest the healthy realities of a walkable world.

Pete Stewart interviewed Sherill Baldwin, an analyst with CT DEEP about post-consumer recycling. If you know little about recycling, this will get you up to speed. If you're a recycling nerd, likely you'll learn something new! About 50 minutes long.